ABSTRACT
As the Holocaust recedes further into the past, memorials and museums have become increasingly important ways to remember. Motives for memory are multifaceted and malleable, such as the Jewish command to remember, the need to educate future generations, rebuffing Holocaust denial and, cynically, self-aggrandisement. The construction of memory is accompanied by processes of forgetting; some events must be forgotten whilst others are emphasised. This creates a particular perspective whereby memory cannot be neutral. Such a narrative voice embodies social or ‘collective memory’.1
